On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 07/17/2010 10:53 AM, Hal Kierstead wrote:
>>
>> I am using LyX 1.6.7 on a Mac. There are several things that I can do
>> easily in tex that I cannot figure out how to do from the keyboard in LyX:
>>
>> 1) Accents: Erd\H{o}s, P\'{o}a, etc.
>>
>>
>
> These can be entered as unicode, actually, and there must be some way to do
> that on a Mac. That said, since I do this rarely, I usually just use the
> mini-buffer. E.g., for the latter, I enter:
> accent-acute o
> and voila. Since the mini-buffer has history, I then can just use that most
> of the time.
On Mac, the standard way to enter "ó" is: <opt>e o. This works in LyX
as well: you can basically type special characters using Mac
standards.
I don't know how to get the equivalent of \H{o}, but that's just my
ignorance. (How would you do it in TextEdit.app? Doesn't that work in
LyX?)
BH
